John Hoeven

I ask this amendment be opposed. It is an effort to prevent construction of the most studied pipeline in the history of the United States. After four environmental impact statements, every one of the reports has shown no environmental…

I think this is something we can get done.

It's one thing to say we want it. It's another thing to do it.

Will you look into this? Will you help me work through the bureaucracy to complete that?

A State's first approach is about that empowerment that's so important for States and particularly for private industry.

We'll need your help, I mean, to develop the renewables on shore and off.

You have to be able to demonstrate in a way that the public understands that the regulators have created safeguards in the system that will allow an institution to fail...

I believe that the taxpayers should not back those large----

So the question is, why won't he work with us?

I appreciate the question from the Senator from West Virginia. For starters, it would put 100,000 barrels a day--this is for starters--into the pipeline. So day one is 100,000 barrels.

I wish to respond to the Senator from West Virginia. Right now, between the oil we produce in the United States, both together with Canada and Mexico, we generate about 70 percent of the oil we consume. This project alone would add 6…

I wish to recognize the Senator from the great State of West Virginia.

To the distinguished Senator from Louisiana, I recently visited with the ambassador, Ambassador Gary Doer. We talked about this and other issues.

But it's the key to a national energy policy that works, and Senator Wyden I think if anybody can do it, I think our Chairman's the kind of guy that can build that kind of consensus.

Would you support a State-led approach to regulation and give States like Colorado and others the flexibility to truly develop their energy resources?

A State-led approach with this Federal transparency and backstop does exactly that.

We've all agreed we need a comprehensive energy plan for this country.

There's no reason for the Feds to step in, overlay it, and create conflict.

I thought Governor Hickenlooper really identified what needed to happen is you need all the stakeholders at the table.

Please let the record show that I was in Minot, ND, on January 29, 2013, to speak at the funeral and honor the life of Chester Reiten when the confirmation vote on Senator John Kerry to be Secretary of State was held. Chester Reiten was a…

Will EPA have a rule finalized by August 30 to ensure the economic activity continues on the Fort Berthold Reservation?

I wish to thank my esteemed colleague, the Senator from Missouri. I appreciate working with him on many issues, including agriculture, and I share his concern. I have been on the floor of the Senate this week and past weeks, expressing my…

In the simplest, most straightforward way, if you would explain to me, how do you ensure that funds from customer segregated accounts are not used by commodity firms?

Will EPA have a rule finalized by August 30 to ensure the economic activity continues on the Fort Berthold Reservation?

I think we can help make that guidance more effective in a way that creates some rules of the road that the industry understands.